Teaching Guide: Energy Dynamics Between Producers and Consumers
This teaching guide helps educators to integrate the Energy Dynamics Between Producers and Consumers simulation into an advanced high school biology lesson. Students investigate how energy is captured, used, and stored as it moves from producers to consumers. By measuring changes in biomass, students collect and analyze data to explain how energy flows through ecosystems.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- energy dynamics
- trophic level
- producer
- consumer
- primary productivity
- trophic pyramid
- population
- 10% rule
- autotroph
- heterotroph
- biomass
- NPP
- first law of thermodynamics
- second law of thermodynamics
- food chain
- HS-LS2-4